Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Iguanidae > Dipsosaurus > Dipsosaurus dorsalisDipsosaurus dorsalis (Desert Iguana)Synonyms: Crotaphytus dorsalis; Dipsosaurus carmenensis; Dipsosaurus dorsalis carmenensis; Dipsosaurus dorsalis lucasensis The desert iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis) is one of the most common lizards of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. They also occur on several Gulf of California islands. Their color is mostly grey and tan. |
| Adult Weight [1] | 70 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 4 grams | | Female Weight [2] | 70 grams |  | | Egg Length [2] | 0.945 inches (24 mm) | | Egg Width [2] | 0.669 inches (17 mm) | | Gestation [2] | 45 days | | Litter Size [2] | 6 | | Litters / Year [2] | 1 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 15 years | | Reproductive Mode [3] | Oviparous | | Snout to Vent Length [2] | 4.724 inches (12 cm) | | | Female Maturity [2] | 2 years 8 months | | Male Maturity [2] | 2 years 8 months | | | Habitat Substrate [3] | Terrestrial |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Rio Colorado Biosphere Reserve |
VI |
2320468 |
Sonora, Mexico |
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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, CA |
III |
184543 |
California, United States |
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Coachella Valley Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve |
Ia |
8106 |
California, United States |
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Death Valley National Park |
II |
762125 |
California, Nevada, United States |
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Joshua Tree National Park |
II |
305076 |
California, United States |
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Lake Mead National Recreation Area |
V |
670229 |
Arizona, Nevada, United States |
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Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve |
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5901 |
California, United States |
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Organ Pipe Cactus Biosphere Reserve |
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327376 |
Arizona, United States |
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Parque Nacional de Sierra San Pedro Martir National Park |
II |
180607 |
Baja California, Mexico |
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Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center |
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6101 |
California, United States |
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Reserva de la Biosfera de la Amistad Biosphere Reserve |
II |
493313 |
Costa Rica |
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Reserva de la Biosfera El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve |
VI |
6176727 |
Mexico |
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Saguaro National Park |
II |
11686 |
Arizona, United States |
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Habitat Vegetation Classification |
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj ♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 5Food Habit of the Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans, with Comparisons to the Diet of Sympatric Long-nosed Snakes, Rhinocheilus lecontei, Javier A. RodrÃguez-Robles, Christopher J. Bell, Harry W. Greene, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 87-92, 1999 ♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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